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Lee Donald Stern

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Lee Donald Stern was an American Quaker pacifist imprisoned during World War II after refusing to report for C...

Connor Stevens

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Connor Stevens was an activist involved in the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30, 2012 as...

Robert Swann

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Robert Swann was an American peace activist and community land trust pioneer. A conscientious objector during...

John Swinglish

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From Cleveland, Ohio, living in Washington DC, age 28 at indictment; a Navy veteran who did Defense Department...

Clement Vallandigham

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Clement Laird Vallandigham was a former U.S. Representative from Ohio and the leader of the antiwar 'Copperhea...

Loring Wadsworth

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Loring Wadsworth was a Wellington, Ohio man among the twenty committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for the 185...

Alfred Wagenknecht

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Alfred Wagenknecht Wagenknecht was a Marxist organizer whose early activism included organizing “street meetin...

Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall

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Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall, a Black shoemaker in Oberlin, Ohio and brother-in-law of John Mercer Langston (l...

David Watson

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David Watson, a Black Oberlin, Ohio resident, was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail...

John Watson

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John Watson, a Black grocer and confectioner in Oberlin, Ohio, was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuya...

John White

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John White, from Ohio, began serving a 21-month prison sentence on October 28, 1918, in Moundsville Penitentia...

Daniel Williams

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Daniel Williams, a Black Oberlin, Ohio resident, was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Ja...

Richard Winsor

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Richard Winsor, an Oberlin College student (indicted under the misstated name "Robert Windsor"), was one of th...

Douglas L. Wright

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Douglas L. Wright was an activist associated with the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30,...

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Abraham Abrams

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Abraham Abrams was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...

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Hashim Ali

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Hashim Ali is a young Black activist from Ohio who was arrested on July 4, 2022, during protests in Akron foll...

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Nemet Alrawajfeh

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Nemet Alrawajfeh is an Arab American activist and community worker from Akron, Ohio, who was pursuing a B.A. i...

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W. Alstin

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W. Alstin was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...

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Ura V. Aschliman

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Ura V. Aschliman was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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William Bago

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William Bago, from Hamilton, Ohio, received a prison sentence of fifteen years, which was commuted to two year...

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Mariah Bailey

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Mariah Bailey, approximately 23 years old at the time, was arrested by the Akron Police Department on July 4,...

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Charles Baker

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Charles Baker, an Ohio Socialist Party organizer, was convicted in 1917 with Charles E. Ruthenberg and Alfred...

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James Bartlett

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James Bartlett was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington...

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Robert T. Begin

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A Roman Catholic diocesan priest of the Diocese of Cleveland, Begin was one of the nine (mostly Catholic clerg...